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also attracted more middle-class audiences, some of whom had never been to a cinema before. William Jury, as the film's booking director, initially charged exhibitors £40, with the fee decreasing by £5 a week; after two months, a reduced fee of £6 for three nights put the film within the price range of village halls wishing to show the film. By October 1916, the film had been booked by more than two thousand cinemas in Britain, earning over £30,000. British authorities showed the film to the public as a
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The popularity of the film was unprecedented and cinemas played the film for longer runs than usual, often to packed houses, while some arranged additional screenings to meet demand. The film is thought to have achieved attendance figures of twenty million in its first six weeks of release. The film
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in 1918. The DVD included the score by Laura Rossi, an accompanying 1916 musical medley, a commentary by Roger Smither, a film archivist at the Imperial War Museum and interviews with Smither, Rossi, Toby Haggith (film archivist) and Stephen Horne (silent film musician) on the reconstruction of the
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was "absorbing" and had attracted huge audiences. German troops recovered a letter from a British civilian, who had seen the film on 26 August and written to a soldier in France, describing the issue of a leaflet to each filmgoer that stated that the film was not entertainment but an official film.
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ran an advertisement for the film, describing it as "the extraordinary films of 'the big push' and "an awe-inspiring, glorious presentation of what our heroes are accomplishing today". In a review published on 16 October, it was written that "these pictures of the Battle of the Somme are a real and
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Crowded audiences ... were interested and thrilled to have the realities of war brought so vividly before them, and if women had sometimes to shut their eyes to escape for a moment from the tragedy of the toll of battle which the film presents, opinion seems to be general that it was wise that the
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In 2012, with the support of the Imperial War Museum, there were public screenings of the restored film accompanied by a live orchestra playing the soundtrack of Rossi's music. Somme100 FILM has a target of a hundred performances of the film by amateur and professional orchestras in the centenary
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printed the comment, attributed to Lloyd George, "If the exhibition of this Picture all over the world does not end War, God help civilisation". The film was shown to British troops in France from 5 September; Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland Feilding, an officer who saw the film in a muddy field near
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was shown but "lacked the immediacy" of the British film, being re-enactments at training establishments behind the lines, which received a lukewarm reception. A booklet to accompany the film proclaimed that it depicted "the German will in war" and implied that the enemies of Germany were using
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for the preservation of global documentary heritage. The film was described by UNESCO as a "compelling documentary record of one of the key battles of the First World War the first feature-length documentary film record of combat produced anywhere in the world" and had "played a major part in
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and Edward Tong of Jury's Imperial Pictures, were to shoot footage for short newsreels. By early June Tong had fallen ill and been sent home but he and Malins had made five series of newsreels, which although well-received, had failed to impress the British cinema trade. John McDowell, of the
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The film was a great success, watched by about 20 million people in Britain in the first six weeks of exhibition and distributed in eighteen countries. A second film, covering a later phase of the battle, was released in 1917 as
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in no man's land, which had been occupied by digging a 2 ft × 5 ft (0.61 m × 1.52 m) tunnel overnight. Malins then went back to Jacob's Ladder to film the explosion of the Hawthorn Ridge mine. At
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in front of White City. German shells were falling as Malins made his way to Lanwick Street Trench; he had to rise above the parapet to remove sandbags and then set up his camera, which was camouflaged with sackcloth.
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summarising the contents. The first part shows preparations for the battle; there are sequences of troops marching towards the front, French peasants at work in rear areas, the stockpiling of munitions, Major-General
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rather than in short sections. The change in format was agreed with the British Topical Committee for War Films and a 5,000 ft (1,500 m) cut of the film was ready by 19 July. Much of the footage was
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Smither described this sequence as a symbol of the First World War, "one of the most famous images in the Imperial War Museum's collections" and that the identity of the "trench rescuer" is unknown.
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film company, volunteered to replace Tong and left for France on 23 June 1916. On 24 June, the British and French armies began the preparatory artillery bombardment of German positions for the
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Reeves, Nicholas (1996). "55 Through the Eye of the Camera: Contemporary Cinema Audiences and Their Experience of War in the Film "Battle of the Somme"". In Cecil, Hugh; Liddle, P. H. (eds.).
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considered that after the attack sequence, "... you are not in a Melbourne picture theatre, but in the very forefront of the Somme battle" and called the film "this moving reality of battle".
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A musical medley with excerpts from classical, folk, contemporary and popular pieces, to be played in cinemas by accompanying musicians, was devised by J. Morton Hutcheson and published in
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Smither, R. B. N. (2002). ""Watch the Picture Carefully, and See If You Can Identify Anyone": Recognition in Factual Film of the First World War Period".
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Later in the day, a shell explosion damaged the camera tripod; Malins repaired it and in the evening filmed roll-calls. Next day Malins shot film at
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master in 1931. The nitrate masters were destroyed in the 1970s after the onset of irreversible nitrate decomposition. Excerpts have been taken for
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McKernan, L. (2002). "Propaganda, Patriotism and Profit: Charles Urban and British Official War Films in America during the First World War".
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Reeves, Nicholas (July 1983). "Film Propaganda and Its Audience: The Example of Britain's Official Films during the First World War".
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and the first British troops across the Somme, following-up the German withdrawal; the film failed to attract the audiences of 1916.
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and from the dressing-station at Minden Post. The success of the 7th Division enabled McDowell to film captured German trenches near
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The second part depicts more preparations, troops moving into front line trenches, the intensification of the artillery barrage by
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from the public version as the War Office wanted the film to contain images that would support the war effort and raise morale. A
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had been shot and recommended that sections of film should be released as soon as possible. Footage was first viewed as a
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Reeves, N. (1997). "Cinema, Spectatorship and Propaganda: 'Battle of the Somme' (1916) and its Contemporary Audience".
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How I Filmed the War: A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc
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Having viewed the film, the writer was sure that it would enlighten the audience in a way never before achieved.
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said "some of it is very good but it cut out many of the horrors in dead and wounded". The film was shown to the
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and opened in provincial cities the following week, when the film was shown simultaneously at twenty cinemas in
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valuable contribution to the nation's knowledge and a powerful spur to national effort". The film premièred in
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Smither, R. (1993). ""A Wonderful Idea of the Fighting": The Question of Fakes in 'The Battle of the Somme'".
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people at home should have this glimpse of what our soldiers are doing and daring and suffering in Picardy.
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Malins and McDowell shot the film between 26 June and from 7 to 9 July. Malins filmed in the vicinity of
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in 1987, the first title from the Imperial War Museum film archive to be released on video. In 2005,
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filmed sequences of shellfire and of troops advancing from trenches, staged for the camera at a
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Haggith, Toby (2002). "Reconstructing the Musical Arrangement for "The Battle of the Somme"".
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on 17 August 1916. On 21 August, the film began showing simultaneously in thirty-four London
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Culbert, David (October 1995). "The Imperial War Museum: World War I Film Catalogue and
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contemporary medley; film fragments and missing scenes were also included in the DVD.
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On 2 November 1915, the British Topical Committee for War Films, representing British
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Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century
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Some members of the audience considered it immoral to portray scenes of violence;
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Viewpoint: The WW1 film over 20 million people went to see, 7 November 2014, BBC
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Focal International: The Journal of the Federation of Commercial Audio Visual
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before leaving for London around 9 July. Malins returned to France and from
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Malins began filming and the mine detonation shook the ground as troops of
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Screenings of the film in 2012 with live soundtrack of Laura Rossi's score
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and were filmed by Malins. The War Office released the film in October as
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on 10 August 1916 and was released generally on 21 August. The film shows
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colonial troops to undermine "German honour". Malins' final feature film
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on 2 September; the film was exhibited in more than eighteen countries.
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reported to the War Office that some 8,000 ft (2,400 m) of
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Badsey, S. (1983). "Battle of the Somme: British War-Propaganda".
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establishing the methodology of documentary and propaganda film."
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version was ready by 31 July and a rough cut was screened at the
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Hawthorn Ridge crater November 1916, photograph by Ernest Brooks
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History of the United Kingdom during the First World War#Media
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which opened in January 1917. In the same month a German film
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long. The first screening took place on 10 August 1916 at the
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Fraser, Alastair; Robertshaw, Andrew; Roberts, Steve (2009).
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cut into the ground, showing up white because of the chalk.
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Official British Film Propaganda during the First World War
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project, a refined version of the film was screened at the
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Malins returned to film the speech by de Lisle to the 2nd
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were forthright, describing images of injury and death.
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Ghosts on the Somme: Filming the Battle, June–July 1916
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The film and its reception attracted great interest in
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was released in June 1917, showing the destruction of
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Scene of British troops advancing, staged for the film
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1916 British film by Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell
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War Letters to a Wife: France and Flanders, 1915–1919
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This man died 30 minutes after reaching the trenches.
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The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks
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British Tommies rescuing a comrade under shell fire.
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officials, cinema trade figures and officers of the
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The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks
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Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916
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Yorkshire Evening Post
Geoffrey Malins
Charles Urban
Laura Rossi
intertitles
documentary
propaganda
war film
cinematographers
Geoffrey Malins
British Expeditionary Force
Battle of the Somme
premièred
London
trench warfare
Imperial War Museum
UNESCO
Memory of the World Register
silent film
intertitles
Beauvoir De Lisle
29th Division
bombardment
18-pounder
60-pounder
4.7-inch
6-inch
9.2-inch
2-inch mortars

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